AttributeError: no attribute 'add_to_pipe'

[pranavnbapat]

I followed exactly the instructions in this URL for usage:
https://spacy.io/universe/project/contextualSpellCheck

I get:
AttributeError: partially initialized module 'contextualSpellCheck' has no attribute 'add_to_pipe' (most likely due to a circular import)

Does anybody know how to solve this?

[ljvmiranda921]

Hi @pranavnbapat , can you post the whole traceback in your question? It seems that I can't replicate your problem. In the meantime, can you try doing this instead:

import spacy
import contextualSpellCheck

nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")

# You can pass the optional parameters to the contextualSpellCheck
# eg. pass max edit distance use config={"max_edit_dist": 3}
nlp.add_pipe("contextual spellchecker")

Lastly, contextualSpellCheck is a third-party package from the spaCy Universe. You might be better off asking directly to the original author's discussion forum.

[pranavnbapat]

Thank you for your reply.

This is what I'm doing. I also tried what you suggested, but didn't work.

And thank you for providing me with the discussion forum link. I'll also ask there. :)

[adrianeboyd]

The problem is that you've given your script the same name as the module, and python ends up trying to import your script as the module contextualSpellCheck instead of the installed module.

Rename your script, choosing a unique name that doesn't overlap with any module names.

[pranavnbapat]

Ohh, how stupid of me... Thank you for helping out... :)

[david-engelmann]

The spacy docs alert to a update in the declaration for 3.0 and higher. Here is the section in the docs. I will also include a screenshot of the relevant information below.

[pranavnbapat]

Thank you david... :)